{"product_id":"everything-in-its-path-9780671240677","title":"Everything in Its Path","description":"The 1977 Sorokin Award-winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general--the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation--and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eErikson, Kai T.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kai T. Erikson is an American sociologist known for specializing in the social consequences of catastophic events. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEverything in its Path\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWayward Puritans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA New Species of Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCatastrophe in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian Environments\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412765020434,"sku":"9780671240677","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b8470cd6-2389-4ff1-a10a-120f5480ca7d.jpg?v=1729326849","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everything-in-its-path-9780671240677","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}